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November 28, 2012

Former Quantico Commander Testifies at Bradley Manning Hearing 
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The retired colonel who presided over the Quantico Marine brig during
accused whistleblower Bradley Manning’s nine-month imprisonment there
took the stand Tuesday during a pre-trial hearing at Fort Meade,
Maryland. Manning’s defense lawyers have complained he was kept in
solitary confinement in a six-by-eight-foot cell and periodically forced
to strip naked. During the hearing Tuesday, former Colonel Daniel Choike
admitted Quantico was not adequately resourced for long-term confinement
and said he had expressed concerns Manning should not be kept for longer
than 90 days. Choike cited Manning’s "erratic behaviour, poor judgment
in the past and poor family relationships" as the reason Manning was
placed on suicide watch and subjected to harsh treatment. Manning has
been imprisoned for more than two years for allegedly leaking hundreds
of thousands of documents to the website Wiki Leaks.

 

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